- Nidhie Sharma is an Indian Origin multi-hyphenate artist. A Filmmaker, screenwriter, Bestselling Author, Singer-songwriter and Adventure sportswoman with an east-west sensibility. She has studied filmmaking and screenwriting from New York University and New York Film Academy. Apart from directing critically acclaimed short films 'Mask in the Mirror' and 'Kids Bank of India', she has worked on multiple projects in varying roles spanning her career, ranging from producing to co-directing to screenwriting and has also authored two books. The multi faceted storytellers was the leading screenwriter on the third season of the International Emmy award nominated Sports drama 'Inside Edge' for Amazon Prime video for which she was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay, series by Filmfare OTT awards in 2021.
In August 2021, Sharma's non fiction book 'Invictus- The Jungle that made me' was published worldwide by Pan Macmillan India. The book is an inspirational teen -vs -wild autobiographical account from her own life , of surviving a jungle near the Indo-China border as a thirteen year old Armed forces child. Invictus, hailed as a "breathless unsettling adventure", has been on the Amazon Outdoor survival Bestseller charts at Number 1 from the first day of preorders. Sharma has also written, directed and produced the trailer for her adventure survival thriller account.
Her literary debut 'Dancing with Demons' is India's first boxing fiction and slated to become a feature film directed by Nidhie herself.
Nidhie has directed three documentaries for Climate change activist Al Gore's 'Current TV'. They are the makers of the Oscar winning Documentary 'An inconvenient Truth'. Her first short titled 'Kids Bank of India' became the most watched short documentary on Current TV (now Al Jazeera)
Her first fiction short directorial 'Mask in the Mirror', was about two New York women battling their inner demons. The film was shot in Brooklyn and premiered at the International Women's film festival. It has been described as 'thought provoking and beautifully shot' by Cosmopolitan Magazine.
From New York, Sharma moved to Los Angeles and worked as Associate Producer on an American Indie feature titled 'You' directed by Melora Hardin, the director/actor of recent hit Netflix web series 'The Bold Type' and 'Emily in Paris'.
Sharma moved to Mumbai next and started to assist National award winning writer-director Sudhir Mishra and worked with him on the comic thriller 'Yeh Saali Zindagi' starring Irrfan Khan and political thriller 'Aur Devdas' starring Richa Chadha and Rahul Bhatt.
She parallelly debuted in the literary world with a Boxing novel titled 'Dancing with Demons' which was hailed as a 'visually spectacular debut' in UK's Pugilist Magazine; which also acknowledged her for "storming the male bastion of Combat sports storytelling'. The Novel was published by Harlequin imprint of Harper Collins and became a crossword bestseller within weeks of its release.
Sharma has been the Associate director/second unit director on the second season of Action thriller 24, starring Anil Kapoor, Ashish Vidyarathi, Neel Bhoopalam and many other actors. During the course of the marathon 255 day shoot, Nidhie directed vital scenes and sequences with actors Ashish Vidyarthi, Neel Bhoopalam, Sapna Pabbi and many others.
The multifaceted storyteller with an east-west sensibility, who does not conform to gender stereotypes, grew up in an Armed forces environment and has extensively travelled the world. She is passionate about Sports and action storytelling and uses the mediums of Literature and Cinema with equal ease to tell her stories.
In 2026, Nidhie made her debut as a singer- songwriter in the world of Military Hip Hop making her the first female Military hip hop artist in India. She released Hinglish song Daddys world in Hinglish on all streaming platforms. She innovated to create an unexplored sub genre by blending light verse genre of poetry with distinct Military instrumentation
Nidhie is a fierce advocate of Gender equality, Wildlife conservation, Climate change and Sports education, specially combat sports.
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- Great grand-niece of legendary Indian Filmmaker Kidar Nath Sharma.
- Daughter of poet and Artiste Jyoti Sharma, Nidhi was deeply influenced in her formative years by her mother's lyrical works, vivid use of color and composition.
- Has a degree in English Literature from India and Filmmaking & Advanced Screenwriting from New York University.
- Wrote a novel titled Dancing With Demons. It is the first Boxing drama to be published in India by Harlequin (Harper Collins). The novel has been on the Crossword Bestseller (fiction) list in Dec 2014.
- Growing up in an Armed forces environment, as a storyteller she is predisposed towards thrillers, action dramas and sportscentric narratives.
- An artist is ultimately remembered for creating an uncompromised body of work. Uncompromised, unfettered and fiercely passionate.
- The stories we are destined to tell find us.
- We are sinners and saints in equal measure, our contradictions continually shaping our humanity and if we deny these paradoxes, we deny the existence of the very evolution that got us here.
- For centuries we've been conditioned to celebrate our soldiers for walking into a hail of bullets, miraculously killing every last enemy-soldier before dying grand deaths. These heroic tales are as necessary as they are sometimes untrue because every war must have it's heroes. So be it. History however has proven time and again that wars are not won by Don Quixote's but by men who display a grass-root understanding of the enemy along with an intelligent strategy that is impeccably executed.
- Are infinite possibilities a storyteller's worst enemy or best friend? I'd say a bit of both really and one must be grateful for this paradox.
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